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1885.— Private—Chapter 29. 777
CHAPTER 29.
An act to incorporate "Priuceyille" in the county of Edgecombe.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That the town of Princeville, in the county princeviiie, Edge-of
Edgecombe, be and the same is hereby incorporated incorporated^'
by the name and style of " Princeville," and shall be sub-ject
to all the provisions of law applicable to the town of
Tarboro, save in so far as they are modified by the further
sections of this act.
Sec. 2. That the corporate limits of said town shall be corporate umits.
as follows: Beginning at the upper side of the Albemarle
and Raleigh Railroad bridge on the bank of Tar river,
opposite Tarboro.; thence running a straight line to Battle
Bryan's lower spring; thence west two hundred and fifty
yards ; theuce south-east a line parallel to the Albemarle
and Raleigh Railroad, seven hundred and fifty yards;
thence east six hundred yards to a stake in H. H. Shaw's
field ; thence north to Tar river bank ; thence down said
river bank to the beginning.
Sec. 3. That the officers of said corporation shall con- officers of the
. _ . . 1 1 - 1 corporarion.
sist of a mayor, five commissioners, clerk, treasurer and
a constable.
Sec. 4. The first election for mayor and commissioners Election, when
shall be held in May, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-six, and until the officers under said first election
qualify, the following shall be the officers of said corpora- untu election,
officers named.
tion upon qualifying, by giving the proper bonds, and tak-ing
the prescribed oaths : Mayor, Milton Pittman ; Commis-sioners,
Turner Prince, M. S. Dancy, Harry Smith, Orren
James and Henry Sparrow ; Clerk, Victor E. Howard
;
Treasurer, Gordon Jenkins; Constable, John Henry Nor-fleet.
Sec. 5. That the authority to tax real and personal Tax nmited to
estate and polls shall be limited to ten cents annually on °^° ^^^ ^^^'
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